land forces

Historical Examples of land forces

• Appointing as commanders of the land-forces officers of the fleet, the army of course resented this as an insult.

  The History of Cuba, vol. 2

  Willis Fletcher Johnson

• The maidens I have named, in fighting as well as courteous array, led their land-forces to the battle-field.

  The Danish History, Books I-IX

  Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")

• While these preparations were carried on, the great king, at the head of his land-forces, marched to Sardis.

  Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton

• The number of land-forces occasioned a debate; and the Hessian auxiliaries were not allowed without dispute and opposition.

  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II.

  Tobias Smollett

• They provided for eight-and-twenty thousand land-forces, besides six thousand marines.

  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II.

  Tobias Smollett